NAGG - Day 14: Sweets

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Oh man! It's late and I'm sleepy, but I've got the next installment of the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge to share with you all! I'm sure you all have given up on me ever finishing this challenge, but Mireia is really helping motivate me to get back on track. So, today I tackled the 'sweets' theme and painted M&Ms on my fingers ;)

NAGG - Day 13: Hearts

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Hello, all! Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I always hate Sundays because I tend to just worry about what will occur at work on Monday, but I try to still enjoy the time off. I was supposed to continue with the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge last Thursday, but as is my Mo, I fell behind and didn't get the post done. But I've got the Hearts theme to share with you today!

NAGG - Day 12: Camouflage

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After almost a one month hiatus, Mireia and I are back with the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go (NAGG) challenge! And while I've enjoyed this challenge so far, I think today has been be least favorite theme going into the manicure...I mean, Camouflage? First off, I'm not much of a camo girl. I'm from an area where people wear it all the time and with too much vigor. Because of that, my idea of what "camo" is, is a bit tainted by my personal experiences.

My other problem was that camo seems like a pretty straight forward concept and I wasn't sure how to give it a fresh look. While doing camo in bright and girly colors can be tempting, it's not really my taste and so I decided to stick with the traditional earth tones you often see instead.

NAGG - Day 11: Wallpaper Nail Art

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Hello, all! Hope you had a great weekend :) I spent mine catching up on a few things like sleep and nail art duties and hoping to start Monday off on a good foot. Tonight I'm finally caught up on the NAGG challenge by tackling the "wallpaper" theme.

While I don't have wallpaper in my house, I'm pretty positive that I need it on every available surface in my house...that's normal, right? I just love all the beautiful prints and patterns available with wallpaper and I especially dig that there are lots of funky color palettes available.

NAGG - Day 10: Night Sky

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Oh man, hold onto your seats, everyone! I've got another Nail-Art-A-Go-Go post to share with you today! I know, it's shocking ;) Today I'm tackling the "Night Sky" theme...which was due last Monday...but let's not talk about that! I'm almost caught up...almost!

I was a bit stumped for what to do for today. I've done a few night sky scenes (my favorite being the inspired by a song mani) and I didn't want to do something too similar to those for today. I did as I often do when I'm at a loss for inspiration, and started browsing google. And came across an image of an owl in flight and my inspiration began to flow!

NAGG - Day 9: Inner Geek

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Man, if you all had a nickel for every time I've said I'm going to get caught up on something "soon", you'd have like...100 nickels...which isn't exactly rich, but you could probably buy a tasty ice cream somewhere or something ;) Anyway, I'm STILL trying to catch up on the NAGG challenge and I'm a full week behind Mireia which I'm feeling terrible over. 

Tonight's theme is "Inner Geek" and to me, my inner geekiness is my absolute love of fantasy novels. It's an absurd love but I will read anything fantasy. My love for the genre started back when my mom took me to get my first library card and I somehow ended up with the book The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley as one of my first checked out items. I was immediately hooked and I've looked back. To this day, when I see the cover of that book, I get excited and the thrill I felt when reading it the first time comes back to me. I'd definitely recommend it for any fantasy lover! 

To commemorate the start of my fantasy love, I decided to attempt the cover of The Blue Sword. The book is set in a desert landscape and I love the artists take on the rocks and mountains but making them choppy and somewhat abstract.

NAGG - Day 8: Still Life

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Ahh, you guys! I've been so busy! I'm sorry I've been so sporadic in my posting and that I always seem to be behind. Sometimes I like to take on too many things and then wonder why I'm so tired and don't have time ;) I'm slowly catching up with the NAGG challenge (Mireia has been kicking some booty with her looks!) and today is all about Still Life! 

One of the first images that pops up when you type "Still Life" into google is this FANTASTIC painting by Paul Cezanne and I just love it. So much. That page has been sitting open on my computer for a week and every day I've been wanting to do it. So, I finally made it happen tonight! 

NAGG - Day 7: Primary Colors, Rose Nail Art

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Hi, all! I've got my latest Nail-Art-A-Go-Go mani to share today! The theme this time around was "Primary Colors" meaning red, yellow and blue. Primary colors are rough to work with in my opinion. Outside of baby products, they just don't really do it for me so I wasn't really looking forward to this prompt. I browsed online for awhile but found nothing particularly exciting related to primary colors. 

As I've mentioned before, I love being inspired by patterns and prints and my favorite go-to resources are catalogues. I especially love Sundance and decided to flip through one of the recent catalogues sent to me and I came across a PRIMARY COLORED ROSE shirt! It was basically fate. The polish gods opened up the heavens and combined floral (my favorite!) and this theme. 

NAGG - Day 6: Neon Tribal Nail Art

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Hello, all! So I'm hoping that after today's post I will finally be back on track with the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge! I was technically supposed to do post these yesterday, but I was just so exhausted from work that the thought of editing photos made me cringe ;) I am once again sleepy tonight so I'll keep this post short and sweet. 

Today's theme for the NAGG challenge is Neon! And, because I haven't done tribal in forever, I decided on a neon tribal look. 

NAGG - Day 5: Blue and Orange Daisy Nail Art

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Hello, all! Sorry for my brief hiatus - this cold really took it out of me. If that wasn't enough, I had planned on posting this look yesterday so that I would be back on track with the Nail-Art-a-Go-Go challenge, but my cable and internet provider decided to take a dive in our area all weekend so I'm only just able to use the internet. I don't know how we ever survived without the internet...I was dying without it! 

Day 5 of the NAGG challenge is contrast! Which is wonderful for me because some of my favorite color combos are contrasting colors, particularly, orange and blue. And I mean, were you really expecting anything other than awesome florals for this?? ;) 

NAGG - Day 4: Monochrome Floral and Lace Nail Art

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Hello, all! Hope you had a great weekend - mine was good until I got sick :( I'm really struggling with it right now and it took me about 5 hours to get this mani and post together because I kept needing breaks. Really hoping I feel better soon, but I'm not going to hold my breath. 

Despite the plague I've acquired, I really wanted to get back on track for the NAGG challenge since I wasn't able to get my post up last Thursday. In a perfect world, I'll post again tomorrow with the next challenge theme, but we'll see what happens! I also have my final Digital Dozen look to get out so I may be playing catchup for awhile ;) 

Anyway, day four of the Nail-Art-a-Go-Go challenge is Monochrome! 

NAGG - Day 3: Warm vs. Cool

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Yay! Time for another post! Moving along with the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge, day three's theme is Warm vs. Cool, meaning, warm color tones vs cool color tones. I once again turned to google to spark my imagination and came across this awesome sunset collage. I love that a sunrise/sunset over the ocean provides such a lovely warm vs. cool contrast that can be experienced daily so it felt like the perfect subject for today's theme. 

NAGG - Day 2: Jewel Tones

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Hello, all! I'm so glad it's Friday. I had a rough work week and fell behind on my Nail-Art-A-Go-Go posts almost immediately! How sad is that? Haha I hope this doesn't happen too often in the future, but sometimes you just can't force nail art. Luckily, Mireia is still on track!

Day two of NAGG is Jewel Tones (Nail-Art-A-Go-Go is SO long and there are hyphens in there and ugh, I'm lazy so it's acronym time!). I think this theme was part of why I couldn't get motivated after work Wednesday and Thursday. This was also the theme that was the nail in the coffin for me last time I tried this challenge as I could not come up with anything for it (yes, day 2 was my breaking point). While I love jewel tones individually, I don't really love them together - it feels a bit overwhelming to me - so I had no clue what to do. 

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Challenge - Day 1: Achromatic

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Hello, all! Happy Monday (at least as happy as it can be)! Today I finally have a purely nail art post to share with you all! If you'll recall, at the beginning of February I had planned on completing the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge put on my Missy over at Gnary Gnails...and if you'll also recall, I failed miserably at keeping up with it. I loved the themes in the challenge so much though that I had hoped to eventually revisit it at some point. 

While the NAGG challenge was initially meant to be completed during the month of February, it's a versatile theme that can work for any time of year. About two weeks ago I was chatting with my friend Mireia from The Nail Art Show and she mentioned that she was interested in trying out the challenge herself. I jumped at that and we decided we'd embark on the challenge together! So, for next few months, the two of us will be working our way through the challenge, posting Mondays and Thursdays. Pretty exciting, right? :) 

While I already completed Day 1 of the challenge back in February, it only felt right that I should start fresh and redo the Achromatic theme. Achromatic is "without color" and for some reason, tonight, my mind jumped directly to mandalas and henna! So, here is my Day 1 mani :)